Friendship and Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence: A Multilevel Social Network Approach
Friendship and Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence: A Multilevel Social Network Approach
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00685.x
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Steglich, Christian
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作者：
Knecht, Andrea B.;Burk, William J.;Steglich, Christian
本研究运用多层次社会网络分析技术，探讨青少年早期朋友间饮酒对同性恋者选择和社会影响的影响。参与者包括来自14所学校120个教室的3 041名荷兰青年（男年龄=12岁，49%为女性）。三波间隔3个月的友谊提名数据和饮酒行为的自我报告。结果显示，在课堂上，友谊提名往往是相互的，二元友谊往往嵌入在有凝聚力的小组（例如，集团）。学生们倾向于提名同性朋友，来自相似的种族背景，以及他们以前在小学认识的人。在预测早期青少年朋友饮酒的相似性方面，选择过程比社会影响过程发挥了更重要的作用。虽然友谊动力学和个人饮酒轨迹有很大的不同教室，同性恋选择和社会影响的影响没有。
This study applies multilevel social network analytic techniques to examine processes of homophilic selection and social influence related to alcohol use among friends in early adolescence. Participants included 3,041 Dutch youth (M age =12 years, 49% female) from 120 classrooms in 14 schools. Three waves with 3-month intervals of friendship nomination data and self-reports of drinking behavior were collected. Results revealed that within classrooms, friendship nominations tended to be reciprocated and dyadic friendships tended to be embedded within cohesive subgroups (e.g., cliques). Students tended to nominate friends who were the same sex, from a similar ethnic background, and who they previously knew from primary school. Selection processes turned out to play a more significant role than social influence processes in predicting similarity between early adolescent friends' alcohol use. Although friendship dynamics and individual drinking trajectories substantially differed between classrooms, the effects of homophilic selection and social influence did not.